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Lo As A Prophet

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
December
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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It Ijas always been sa'id that the Indians wera the most rcliable weather prophets that could be obtaned. At any rate, it has always been a firm belief of oiirs that au indian always knew more about such things thau ordinary white inortals. As a great many people are interested in knowing what the coming winfer is to be, we thought it would be a feat of newspaper enterprise to interview an Indian on this proposition. So when Old Bodie carne along this morning to secure a two-bit paymcnt in advance of some wood he proposed to use for us we asked hinr. "Bodie, what kind of a winter are we going to have?" "My folk he ketchum heap pine nut." "What is that the sign of?" "Deerhim heap pat." "What does that indícate?" "Jack-labbit him heap plenty." "Sign of a cokl winter, may be?" "Mabbe so; mabbe him cold, mabbe him hot, mabbe him sun all time, mabbe him lain, mabbe him snow lik . I dunno." The Indian may be as goud a prphet as Wiggins, but he lacks

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat